Feminists Talk Whiteness

List of Contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Facing the dragon

Leigh Anne Francis and Janet Gray

1 Strategic white womanhood: Challenging white feminist perceptions of "Karen"

Ruby Hamad

2 White women's participation in the attempted genocide of Native American peoples

Karla J. Strand

3 White women as white supremacist political actors: From the suffragists to the Karens

Christina Cavener

4 "The good, the bad, and the indifferent": The political pedagogy of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Leslie K. Dunlap

5 The unbearable whiteness of lesbian studies

Stephanie Andrea Allen

6 bell hooks: Black indigeneity, ancestral memory, and lessons on resistance

Reanae McNeal

Poem: La sangre llama

Denise Zubizarreta

Questions, activities, and resources

7 On white privilege and anesthesia: Why does Peggy McIntosh's knapsack feel weightless?

Alison Bailey

8 Fear, loathing, and las whiteness: Whiteness as fearfulness

Andrea Dionne Warmack

9 Academic survival: Troubling the tensions between race, gender, and class in a predominantly white academic institution

Carolyn Tinglin

10 Colorism in the Latina community: The internalization of racialized sexism

Melissa K. Ochoa

11 Feminists talk whiteness: Disrupting the grip of white supremacy culture on feminist movement building

Ann Russo

12 Beyond choice: A dialogue on the whiteness of liberal feminism and reimagining freedom beyond individual choice

Houda Ali and Britt Munro

Poem: Amazing Grace (For the children of John Newton)

Liseli A. Fitzpatrick

Poem: My body is a river

Rachel O'Hanlon odriguez

Poem: What chou mean we, white girl, revisited

Becky Thompson

Questions, activities, and resources

13 From performing equity to loving equity: Combating whiteness in emerging allyship movements

Meena Mangat

14 The ally's tools: Racialized power and privilege within the antiracist praxis

Samantha L. Vandermeade

15 Whiteness and indigeneity: Feminism as a settler colonial discourse

Ruth Alminas and Cory Pillen

16 Teaching transgender studies: Experiential knowledge and race

Dana T. Ahern

17 Shame work: Reducing supremacy and the violence of white men

Cameron Rasmussen

18 Like, share, tweet: Anti racist cyberactivism vs. performative slacktivism

Sara Blanchard and Misasha Suzuki Graham

19 Making mistakes: A conversation

Peggy Diggs and Lucy R. Lippard

Poem: and i am sorry

Anaïs Peterson

Poem: White me: A check list

Ivy T. Schweitzer

Poem: Miranda Waiver for white people

Becky Thompson

Questions, activities, and resources

Index